[Alex Hawkins]

[Kevin P McAuliffe] “Who’s opinion on FCPX has mattered to you the most”

WB, RH, SR, DRW, JH, MR.

[Kevin P McAuliffe] “who’s opinion do you want to hear?”

Mr. Lawrence.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Alex Hawkins]

Mmmm bummer. Sorry David I’m all out of advice as I don’t have a Blackmagic card.

Best chase them up about it.

Good luck,

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Alex Hawkins]

Thanks for that Christopher, I really enjoyed it.

A great way to start my day.

Cheers,

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Alex Hawkins]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “I’m also pretty ruthlessly selective in the things I respond to”

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Now when I say hit them on the bonce of course, I actually mean bang my gnats splayed forearms onto the windshield of the apple Audi R8 doing ninety down the future lane highway – god alone knows they can’t actually see us”

Yeah but don’t you see Aindreas. . . You’re funny and witty.

Therein lies the difference.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Alex Hawkins]

[David Roth Weiss] “You cannot win. Chris Kenny will simply wear you down.”

[David Roth Weiss] “he is relentless in his use of circular reasoning and non sequiturs, which makes any discussion futile. “

David I totally agree. He just doesn’t get it does he.

You have to admire his resilience though . . .

. . . don’t you?

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Alex Hawkins]

That’s great David, glad to be of help.

Just re your pre roll, check your internal settings on your 2800. Change it there, on the machine itself and see if that makes a difference.

Cheers,

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Alex Hawkins]

Thanks Tom, yeah I haven’t posted anything about this for a while as I wanted to be sure i wasn’t missing anything. I guess I just wanted to see if anybody else with the same setup as me had had similar problems.

I’ve posted on the Adobe forums as well as the Kona forum here so I’ll see if I get any responses there.

Cheers,

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Alex Hawkins]

I thought this was pretty accurate though (not to mention fairly hilarious):

Anyway, let’s sum up project organization in FCP X: It’s apocalyptically bad. Seriously. It’s like the program was specifically and maliciously designed to make it hard to do even the most basic tasks, like sorting your shots into bins so you can find things. Yes, Apple’s apparent philosophy is that human beings shouldn’t sort things; computers should sort things. Human beings should just tell the computer what we want. And if the computer had perfect knowledge, that’d work fine. But the computer won’t ever have perfect knowledge, and if it did, the editor wouldn’t. How many times have you been working on a corporate piece, say, and you’re cutting together interview bites from multiple subjects? Do you ever know the subjects’ names? Hell no. It’s just “this guy with the glasses,” “that girl with the bad haircut,” “that cool chap in the bow tie.” Do you want to have to sit down and methodically tell your editing system which shots have the guy with glasses and which have the girl with the hair? No, you don’t. You just want to throw shit in bins, then browse through them to find the shots you want.

Both Avid and Final Cut Pro (the old one) work on the core principle of putting shit in piles. You can make as many piles as you want, easily, and you can put shit in them. This goes there, that goes there. Easy and quick.

FCP X is based on the core principle that you’re a goddamn librarian. Every shot on your system has to have its own Dewey decimal number, and its own card in the card catalogue. Yes, once you completely and thoroughly annotate every f***ing frame in the three-hundred-and-seventy hours of rushes that go into your show, I’m sure FCP X will do a yeoman’s job of finding what you want for you, as long as you, yourself, remember how things were annotated. But if you just want to put shit in piles and then find it again by browsing, like every editor in the universe does, FCP X will fight you tooth and nail every step of the way.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Alex Hawkins]

Thanks Bob for posting this.

Absolutely says it all.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Alex Hawkins]

Hey John, Did you really call him “Mr. Vice President”?

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia